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Hello: I have a machine running Fedora Core 2 with an HP Color LaserJet 2550L printer connected via a USB cable. Local printing from the fedora machine is just fine. It uses CUPS. I am trying to set this printer up using Samba, but I keep getting postscript code when I try to print from Windows. Here is my smb.conf file: [global] log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log load printers =

Hello: I have a client that is using MS SQL Server in a Windows 2003 server. They have a Linux machine (Fedora Core 3) that is acting as a file server using Samba. We want to write backups from the SQL Agent for SQL Server to one of the shares on the Samba server. If I set the share to allow guest access, the SQL Agent can write the backups just fine using \\Shares\SQLBackups\pubs.bak but, if

Hello: I have a printer set-up and working correctly on my Linux machine running Fedora Core 1. It is set up as a local printer called printer. I set it up thru the graphical printer configuration utility. I am trying to set it up as a network printer from my Windows XP machine using Samba. Here are the lines in my smb.conf file: [global] encrypt passwords = yes socket options

Hello: I have a brother HL-1440 laser printer set-up and working fine on my RedHat 7.3 Linux box. The printer queue is named brotherLaser. I added a samba share for the printer with these options in my smb.conf file: [brotherLaser] path = /var/spool/lpd/brotherLaser writable = yes comment = Brother Laser Printer printable = yes public = yes I then went

Hello: My RedHat 7.3 machine just locked up and I could not reboot it. I had to punch the reset button. Here is what I found in the /var/log/messages file: May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)" May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: kernel BUG

Hello all: I did a fresh install of CentOS 7 on a new machine. I wrote /usr/local/bin/firewall.stop to remove all the firewall rules. It contains this code: # Flush the rules /usr/sbin/iptables -F # Set the default policies to accept /usr/sbin/iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT /usr/sbin/iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT /usr/sbin/iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT I wrote /usr/local/bin/firewall.start to set the

Hello: I have a subversion repository set up in /usr/local/svn/MyProject. For security, I have that directory set to apache as the owner and group and all files are mode 700. I need to run a svnsync command as the apache user so it may write to the repository. I tried this command: su apache -c "/usr/bin/svnsync sync https://svn2.jammconsulting.com/svn/MyProject" But I get this

Hello: I tried posting this to the subversion mailing list, but that does not seem to be taking the post so I am hoping this list can help. I am using svnsync installed using yum on my CentOS 5 server. I am trying to tell the sync command to save the certificates and credentials in a directory, but it does not seem to be doing so. I created a directory /usr/local/svn/MyProject.config To run

Hello, I've got a redhat9 system with cups and samba3 installed. I want to use this machine for both local and network printing. On the local side apps can print just fine, the cups configuration is working great. Network-side is not the case. I've got a mixture of 2k and 9x clients, so i'm going to need drivers for both configurations. In smb.conf i've got: printcap name = cups

Hello: I have a Supermicro SuperServer 5015P-TR. It has a Pentium D and is running CentOS x86_64. Can this machine use 8GB RAM? I think it should because it is running a 64 bit OS, but I am concerned because it is fundamentally 32 bit hardware. Anyone have any experience in this area? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your

Hello: I booted from the CentOS 4.4 CD. I am trying to mount the partitions on the hard drive of the physical machine (Fedora Core). I did: mkdir /mnt/hda1 chmod 755 /mnt/hda1 mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 I get back: mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /mnt/hda1 busy I checked with df. I don't see hda1 anywhere. Any ideas what is wrong? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (214)986-3533,

Hello: According to the Red Hat Virtualization Guide, Windows Server 2003 32-bit will only run as a fully virtualized guest on an AMD64 system. I thought I have seen a lot of discussion about running paravirtualized Windows on CentOS. Is that a bad idea? Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber

Hello: Does anyone know a free or low cost online backup system for CentOS? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com CentOS 5.4 KVM VPS $55/mo, no setup fee, no contract, dedicated 64bit CPU 1GB dedicated RAM, 40GB RAID storage, 500GB/mo premium BW, Zero downtime

Here's a thought: what about doing an lsof? If a file is still being written by ftpd it should be open for writing. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: gjgowey at tmo.blackberry.net Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:07:23 Subject: re: [centos] how to know when files have finished ftping? -- antair restored On Nov 11, 2007 2:20 PM, Neil Aggarwal

Hello: I have a server running CentOS 4.4. I just did a yum update and then rebooted the server. After the reboot, it stops after printing GRUB on the screen. Any ideas what happened? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details.

Hello: I am trying to follow the RHEL virtualization guide to set up a bridge on a system running CentOS 5.4. I copied my ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth0:1 and set its content to this: DEVICE=eth0:1 HWADDR=[The MAC address from eth0] ONBOOT=yes BRIDGE=br1 I then created ifcfg-br1 with this content: DEVICE=br1 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.2.255 IPADDR=192.168.2.202

Hello: I have a machine running CentOS 5.2 I added two IP addresses to eth0 by copying /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 and changing the relevant IP info. I am now seeing outbound connections failing at my firewall from services like NTP, etc. since they are now using a source address from one

Hello: I tried this command to tar up a set of data files updated since yesterday (The data directory contains multiple files with varying dates): /bin/tar -z -c -N 2009-03-25 -f /tmp/test.tgz data When I look at the content of the test.tgz file, it looks like it copied the content of the entire directory, not just the newer files. I am on CentOS 5. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil -- Neil

Hello: On a CentOS5 machine I set up for a client, in /etc/aliases, I set root's mail to forward to my email address so I can get notices from cron, etc. Unfortunately, I am now getting a lot of spam which is sent to root at theservername.com How can I tell sendmail to not accept external email to root? I searched the Internet and found some horribly convoluted solutions. There has to

Hello: I am looking at the RHEL 5.4 virtualization guide. According to Chapter 17, if I want to use KVM on my machine, I need to check if it has the constant Time Stamp Counter by running this: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep constant_tsc When I do that on the server (Currently running CentOS 5.3), I do not get any output. According to the output, that means my system does not have the counter. It